Held on the main floor of the Fez Ballroom, the “Making Monsters” Portland release party is set for Thursday September 30th. Opening at 9pm, the event will be hosted by none other than Joe Letz of Combichrist and will feature both CD and ticket giveaways for the upcoming Making Monsters tour. The “Making Monsters” Portland live show is November 10th. This is a free event that will be coinciding with the Shadowplay’s 4th Anniversary party. (more on that soon!)

With the release of their fifth studio album MAKING MONSTERS coming on September 28, 2010, Metropolis recording artists COMBICHRIST have announced dates for Monsters on Tour with support from Aesthetic Perfection and Ivardensphere.

Kicking off on November 3rd in New Orleans and circling around the States, this is the band’s first tour of the US after four months on the road supporting Rammstein in Europe. Combichrist’s much lauded and respected live shows are, as Crypt Magazinedescribes, “known for tons of energy, blood, and a rock n’ roll attitude.”BlogCriticsalso warns it’s “not for the faint of heart – you wouldn’t bring your grandmother to this show!

Fueled by expressions of lust, anger, pain and hate, Making Monsters is the sound of Combichrist mastermind Andy LaPlegua ripping out his heart and plugging its still-beating deathkicks into his music, rife with hook-heavy choruses, speaker-crushing beats, and dark aggressive vocals. The first single “Never Surrender” is bound to rule the dance floors along with other floor stompers “They” and “Throat Full of Glass”. The baretoothed aggression of “Follow the Trail of Blood” (featuring Brendan Schiepatti of Bleeding Through) will immediately become a crowd favorite while the brooding “Through These Eyes of Pain” takes a much subtler approach and shows us another side of Combichrist, that of the man inside the monster.

Recorded in Totprod Studios in Atlanta, GA and produced by LaPlegua, Making Monsters takes the band beyond the aggressive techno and electro rhythms and propels them into much more primal and raw territory. “It’s beyond my personal demons, and extremely honest,” says LaPlegua.Making Monsters will be released via Metropolis Records physically on September 28, 2010 (digital release is slated for August 31, 2010). The live incarnation is comprised of LaPlegua, longtime live drummer Joe Letz (Amen, Genitorturers, Emigrate), keyboardist Z_Marr (Hell Trash), and Trevor Friedrich (Eighteen Visions, Imperative Reaction).